你们当中可能有不知道东北沿海地区的人吧——科德角是一个半岛，一块延伸到大西洋的狭长地带。

For those of you who don't know the northeast coastal region, Cape Cod is a peninsula, a narrow strip of land that jets out into the Atlantic.

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日本国家广播公司NHK记录下了被海啸彻底摧毁的日本东北沿海城镇的情况。这些触目惊心的镜头，令所有人驻足。

The stunning images from NHK, Japan's national broadcaster, of the northeastern coastal towns completely destroyed by the tsunami that devastated them, had everyone's attention.

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不仅这里的居民，东北部港口，沿海城镇和小海湾社区中的居民也经历了这一切，虽然他们中的一些死里逃生。

Their fate was shared by perhaps tens of thousands of people living in ports, coastal towns and tiny cove communities across the north-east. Some, though, were spared.

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